The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for September 02, 2022

I’d say it’s both, Koko.

All right doggie. It time for a good bath for you now.

Bug off!

If that flea is smart he’ll fly. He can grass-hop until he finds another dog to bug.

Eunice gonna hook up with her buds, the Dixie Fleas, and then Earl better watch out.

So those are the voices I’m hearing.

“To the moon Alice!”

There’s a flea market not far from my house.

“The Vermin only teaze and pinch

Their Foes superior by an Inch.

So, Nat’ralists observe, a Flea

Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,

And these have smaller yet to bite ’em,

And so proceed ad infinitum:

Thus ev’ry Poet, in his Kind

Is bit by him that comes behind."

Jonathan Swift On Poetry: A Rhapsody

Why I can remember this from 50 years ago and not remember why I went into the next room is beyond me…